The comparative merits of the iPhone 4 on AT&T and Verizon may vary depending on location and user needs, but a new study shows that when it comes to pure iPhone data downloading power, AT&T's network is in a league of its own. Metrico Wireless, a mobile performance evaluation firm, found that AT&T's iPhone 4 downloads data twice as fast as its Verizon counterpart.

This week Google released Google Translate for iPhone app. It's a mobile version of Google Translate HTML5, which was released in 2008. This app marks a long way from when travelers had to carry phrase books and handheld translaters that required you to type a word or phrase, which then spit out a rudimentary translation.

The long-awaited Verizon iPhone will be available in February, and scores of new smartphone converts will finally be able to check their e-mail while brushing their teeth, play Plants vs. Zombies while chewing their morning muffins and carry out bank transactions while walking to work.

Ever since Apple introduced the App Store, someone or other has written weekly (perhaps daily) about why Apple's tight control over the App Store is a bad idea. Every time an app is rejected or delayed, the teapot is stirred again.

If you just got a new iPhone for Christmas, then congratulations, you are going to love it. Next step now is to jailbreak your iPhone in order to release the full potential of it. If you're not sure what jailbreaking is, I suggest you read a bit more about it. As you will see, there are many reasons to jailbreak your iPhone.

When Google announced that it was getting into the phone business, many expected that it was going to release the long rumored "GPhone", a high-tech smart phone akin to the iPhone. The company surprised everyone when it instead released a smart phone operating system, Android.

The iPhone has always had video playback capabilities. First, we were able to watch video via the YouTube application and eventually plenty of other services services began to offer video streaming or downloads. Eventually the 3GS came out, letting users record a video and then upload it, but never stream it live.

Two of the biggest smartphone launches this year will be those of the Palm Pre and the iPhone 3G S. The Pre launched a few weeks back and the iPhone 3G s is set to burn up the doors at AT&T Friday. IGN has a comparison of the two phones, and on paper, they are surprisingly similar to each other.

Just how do you fit a wrestling game on a gaming rig with no buttons? You refashion the experience into what essentially boils down to a story-driven game of paper-rock-suplex. Longtail Studios has certainly taken a unique approach to the TNA license and it's a strange outcome to see the story and RPG elements of the game outpace the actual wrestling action.

We already told you about the UK banning Apple's "just the internet" ad, and why they were wrong. Well, the BBC is reporting yet another Apple iPhone 3G television ad has just been yanked off the UK airwaves by the British government's advertising standards watchdog group. Why? For exaggerating the iPhone 3G's speed.